Reporting: Lack of Broadband Cripples Rural America

In many rural areas, the “information superhighway” is really more like a one-lane dirt road. The least-served areas encompass entire states and regions, especially in the Plains and the Midwest, the parts of America that are the farthest from big urban centers: all of the Dakotas, eastern Montana, northern Minnesota, eastern Oregon, the Missouri-Iowa border and nearly all of Appalachia. That lack of service can leave rural residents and businesses at a real disadvantage.

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